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Eight months into their first mandate, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s Liberals can head into their long summer break content that Canadians show no sign of buyer’s remorse. The government continues to score well in polls and Trudeau’s personal popularity remains solid. “So far so good” seems to be the general attitude, though it would be wise [...]

Liberal statesman Irwin Cotler says Canada has “defaulted” on the “Responsibility to Protect” principle his party once championed by not backing intervention in Syria to stop the slaughter of civilians at the hands of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. “The Liberal party has always had an internationalist dimension to its foreign policy. But if you look back [...]

The conclusion is stark and damning: “ISIS has committed, and continues to commit, the crime of genocide, as well as multiple crimes against humanity and war crimes, against the Yazidis.” On Thursday, a report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said that Daesh — also known as ISIS and ISIL — is seeking “to destroy [...]

Fielding questions Wednesday from Conservative Jason Kenney, Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion wanly insisted his government lacked the evidence to say the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is guilty of genocide. Thursday the minister flip-flopped, in the face of a new UN report providing conclusive evidence thereof. The opposition, no surprise, renewed its call for Canada [...]

TORONTO, ON –(Marketwired – June 10, 2016) – Zoryan Institute of Canada, and many Canadians, were surprised to hear the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) declare in its Final Report of December 2015 that “cultural genocide” had been committed by our government against Indigenous peoples through the Indian Residential Schools (IRS) systems. Canadians were ashamed [...]

Host(s): DON MARTIN DON MARTIN: Welcome back. Well the Conservatives push hard to pass a motion condemning ISIS for committing a genocide of their enemies in Iraq and Syria. The Liberals say that’s something international authorities should declare. Well here’s the clashing political view on whether Canada should be doing this. Here’s interim Conservative leader Rona [...]

The Conservatives, in their ceaseless quest to embarrass the government, are set to introduce an opposition day motion calling for MPs to recognize that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has committed genocide against religious minorities such as Christians, Yazidis and Shia Muslims in Iraq and Syria. Readers may arch their eyebrows in wonder that [...]

Should Canada set out to try to save the world from itself? Obviously not. We are indeed an exceptionally successful nation, ranked as one of the most successful in the world according to almost all of the international surveys of national accomplishments. But we are only a middle-sized state, one that has to deal with [...]

They had come to reinvent the wheel – one their Canadian predecessors had played a significant role in shaping some six decades earlier. The closed-door meeting at Global Affairs Canada on Jan. 29, 2016, was a brainstorming session on a topic that, at one time, would have been inconceivable in Canadian government circles: how Canada could make [...]

I have visited with Canadian Armed Forces in Bosnia and in Afghanistan and at bases across Canada. I have met and lectured at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto, a division of the Royal Military College (RMC) in Kingston, and I have also lectured at RMC, and I have never failed to be impressed by [...]